Home brew

After visiting Maki's relatives in Wakasa (west coast) a number of times and always asking to buy some of their stock of well tasting home made plum wine (umeshu, technically not a wine but more like a liqueur) they today sent us a box of around 20kg of japanese plum so that we could try our home brew skills ourselves. So now we have three 8.0L large glass jars filled with about 4.5 kg plum each, lots of sugar and in this case 2 cans of honey and then topped up with white liquor. In 6 to 12 months they should hopefully contain some really nice umeshu. The longer you keep them to mature the better the umeshu will taste. However if you have waited for a year and it taste good I think it will be difficult to wait any longer.

Now it's well past midnight when we've finished and tomorrow morning we will get on the flight to Sweden. We'll have a compact mini vacation up north with my parents, attend our friends wedding in Stockholm and I will go to a training in the south before we will return to Tokyo in a bit more than a week.